A great step forward towards total freedom, which one day not far away will allow diabetics to monitor glucose in real time with small implanted devices capable of reading body data by themselves.
Neuralink wants to connect the human brain with a computer to increase data exchange between the two systems and provide a “bionic” alternative to artificial intelligence.
After a year of hard work, Mark Zuckerberg has revealed to the world some details of the #artificial intelligence #Jarvis, a personal assistant for the home that the founder of #Facebook had wanted to develop as a "personal challenge". Mark, pleasantly, gave the AI the name of Iron Man's butler, and integrated it into the home automation system of his house. Jarvis does everything, or almost everything: it independently manages lights, temperature, appliances, music from both PCs and mobile devices and much more. Jarvis can be commanded with… Read more
The future in which we all have a technological implant in our eyes, which will allow us to send messages and take photos, is not that far away. In fact, today we are talking about nothing other than the new Sony patent, which is based on a sensor that is activated by measuring the pressure of the eyelid and which allows you to take photos thanks to intelligent contact lenses. And thanks to the movement of the eye it will also be possible to adjust the lens aperture and zoom. To check the image quality… Read more
According to DARPA statements, the group of volunteers who underwent brain implants are experiencing improvements in memory. The project, Restoring Active Memory (curiously the acronym is RAM, just like the memory of a computer) can promote the mnemonic and cognitive recovery of all subjects affected by brain trauma. The group of volunteers, subjected to surgery for the positioning of brain implants through electrodes close to the regions of the brain responsible for the development of declarative memory, obtained better results... Read more
Alphabet, the Google super-holding founded in August which unites innovative companies in the field of new technologies and medicine, is about to enter the testing phase with its first project, Google Loon. It is a series of sounding balloons that travel at high altitudes creating a global internet transmission network. The web giant has asked the Federal Communications Commission for a license to test experimental radio mechanisms in 50 states of American soil and in Puerto Rico, attaching a ... Read more
The best medical devices for measuring blood pressure today require a prolonged stay of the patient in the clinic. An experimental sensor can adhere to the skin almost like a tattoo and monitor this parameter in real time 24 hours a day. Why is a wearable sensor a revolution? A flexible and wearable sensor marks the difference between a simple 'photograph' of the patient and a constant path that allows us to perfectly understand what correlations exist between daily activities and the variation... Read more
Carrefour has started to look around among its suppliers (651) to identify the "greenest" companies that are ahead in adopting environmental sustainability policies. The company asked participants to present their projects, then evaluating them with the consultancy of Fedabo, a leading company in the sector, evaluating their innovative scope and producing a ranking: 7 virtuous companies, each for a reason. For Carrefour's sales and marketing director, Grégoire Kaufman, the process was natural: since 2011… Read more
Elon Musk finally made it: his Hyperloop is starting to take its first steps. The first test stretch (about 10 km) in California is under construction. It is located in Quay Valley, between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and will carry 10 million people in its initial phase for the next two and a half years. In the prototype trains, passengers will reach a speed no higher than 260 km per hour in this initial phase, but in some… Read more
ABS Hovercraft, an English company specializing in the amphibious vehicle sector, definitely took a leap forward when 25 years ago it ventured into the development of a 6-seater hovercraft called DONAR. The creation, pioneering in every way, went from the lightness of the materials to the great protection offered by the closed cabin. Subsequent improvements and the introduction of progressively more advanced technologies have led to new features in a system that yesterday was simply too advanced, today who knows: ... Read more
A team of researchers has developed the first prototype of a miniature particle accelerator, which uses terahertz waves instead of radio frequencies. A single accelerator module is just 1 centimeters in size, and a millimeter thin. Terahertz technology could allow the miniaturization of the entire apparatus: this is the objective of the group led by Franz Kärtner, of the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science. The prototype was presented with an article in the scientific journal Nature. The author hypothesizes numerous fields of application of accelerators… Read more
More than a novelty in the Bravo range or at Fiat, today we are talking about an offer that Lingotto offers (and in times of crisis the offers are very useful) for the dual fuel version, LPG version of the Bravo; the possibility of having the car at an advantageous price, complete with financing, insurance and without a down payment. For those who don't know it yet, the Fiat Bravo Mylife is equipped with a 1.4 HP 90 EasyPower engine and, as for the ... Read more
AFS (Engineers at Air Fuel Synthesis) based in the north of England claims to have produced 5 liters of synthetic oil in the space of 3 months. It's a little bit, you might say. And give me a break. The technique consists of extracting carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from the water, then combining them in a reactor which produces methanol with the help of a catalyst. The methanol is then converted into oil. Now have you understood why it takes 3 months for 5 liters? Not exactly the time that… Read more
When over the last 5 years we reported news on DARPA's robotic arm (if you feel like it, the old site is available), we talked about advanced prototypes: today we can talk, with satisfaction, about clinical tests: it is the future. No later than two weeks ago, American health bodies approved the protocol that will allow volunteers to obtain the implant of a bionic arm: on the front line, once again, soldiers wounded in war. They will be the ones to experiment… Read more
How will the way we relate to others change? And how will the world's oldest relationship, future sex, be transformed?
Microsoft's Holodesk project is starting to provide the first prototypes and the first stimuli: the possibility of manipulating '3D' objects in physical space seems really interesting. The system combines a Kinect sensor (yes, the kind that is currently used 'for fun') and a special screen to create a three-dimensional environment in which it is possible to intervene directly. The concept is more than simple: a projector sends an image into the work area, which is observed through a transparent 'partition'... Read more
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